Dreaming of adventures? You’re in the right place. We’re thinking about adventures in Central America today as part of our #adventure365 series. Packed with rich culture, biodiverse and scenic landscapes, jungles, jaw-dropping volcanos, cobble-stoned colonial cities, ancient ruins, sun-kissed beaches, abundant wildlife and more active adventures than you can shake …

Each January Ouidah in Benin plays host to a huge festival celebrating one of the country’s most popular religions – voodoo. Whilst voodoo ceremonies can be found across Benin throughout the year, the Atlantic coastal town of Ouidah is considered the spiritual home of voodoo and its annual festival attracts …

Whether it’s a high mountain climb, a long trek through the wilderness or exploring a different culture on foot, we love a trekking adventure. There’s nothing quite like the accomplishment of crossing a mountain, desert or plain on your own two feet. Its certainly one of the best ways to …

Extraordinary journeys are the thing that get us most excited. Whether they’re physical feats of endurance or a marathon of the mind that challenges your emotional or personal development as well as the strength of your muscles, we love them. Nothing gets our pulses racing quite as much as great …

It’s a sad state of affairs but it’s most likely you’ll have heard of the Kurds in recent months in light of the crisis with ISIS. What you may not have picked up from the news reports you’ve read is that the problems mostly take place outside the Kurdistan Region …

Bluebird – Four Mountains in Four Days in Canada’s British Columbia I’m lucky to be able to visit British Columbia a couple of times a year to visit family on the West Coast. Usually my trips are in the summer months which are packed with spectacular sunshine and sailing or …

The travel world has been (quite rightly) alive with chatter about Iran over the last 12 months. With the reopenings of the Iranian Embassy in London and the British embassy in Tehran, and the Foreign Office no longer advising against travel, 2016 really is the year for visiting Iran and …

Cuba – synonymous with music, beaches, old cars, colonial architecture and a revolutionary history. A time-warn but magnificent place of contradictions, still reeling from an embargo that lasted for over 50 years but now on the precipice of change. The beautiful and lively island is the Caribbean’s largest but still …

Adventure travel is taken to a new level when you choose to set sail. Whether you’re planning to join an expedition sail boat, join the crew of a tall ship or go exploring on a sailing catamaran, you’ll need to pack appropriately to enjoy the trip properly. Here are six …

Happy New Year! As the New Year creeps in around the world today we’ve set ourselves our first challenge for 2016. To share more exciting news and inspiring tales of adventure with you via new blog Adventure365. We’re aiming for a blog a day in January to get us into …

There has been an overwhelming response to the overlanding trips that have started up again in West Africa this autumn on the south bound journey from Morocco down to Ghana. The team are preparing for their north bound routes in 2016 and although some legs of the journey from Accra …